78 research outputs found

    The form and use of everyday streets

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    Everyday streets facilitate various activities and movements, both indoors and outdoors. The second section of this book addresses the following question: What is the relationship between the urban form of everyday streets and the activities that occur on them?Urban Desig

    Introduction to Everyday Streets

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    Everyday streets are both the most used and the most undervalued of cities’ public spaces. They constitute the inclusive backbone of urban life – the chief civic amenity – though they are challenged by optimisation processes. Everyday streets are as profuse, rich and complex as the people who use them; they are places of social aggregation, bringing together those belonging to different classes, genders, ages, ethnicities and nationalities. They comprise not just the familiar outdoor spaces that we use to move and interact and the facades that are commonly viewed as their primary component but also urban blocks, interiors, depths...Urban Desig

    Leisure Coast City. A comparative history of the urban leisure waterfront. Barcelona. Chicago. Buenos Aires. 1870-1930

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    *** NOTIFICATION *** With reference to this thesis, I express my debt to Dr. Sonia Berjman’s numerous and pioneer publications on Buenos Aires landscape history, which were not only inspiring but also the basis of my analysis of Courtois, Bouvard, Thays, Carrasco brothers, Forestier and other landscaper’s works in that city. This chapter 4 would not have been possible without her researches and the sources, ideas and relations that she has brought to the forefront. I apologize for not having given her proper credit in the original thesis text. I further state that Dr. Sonia Berjman ’s book Benito Javier Carrasco: sus textos. (Facultad de Agronomía. Universidad de Buenos Aires, 1997, 258 p.) has been - in a great part - the source basis for my article ‘La Costanera Sur de Buenos Aires. Borde y horizonte de la ciudad’. In: Public Art in Urban Design. Vol. 11, 10.2008, pp- 30-40. http://www.ub.edu/escult/Water/water11/Water011.pdf p. 65 . I regret not having given her proper credit in the printed and web publications. Agustina Martire *** ABSTRACT *** The urban waterfront is in the spotlight. During the last decades harbour facilities have been moved away from urban centres. Projects for the recovery and restructuring of obsolete industrial areas by the water are sprawling all over the globe. The process of recovery of the urban waterfront that takes place currently began more than a century ago with the discovery of the urban waterfront as a space of leisure. Waterfronts, as urban spaces, have followed a development signed by different conflicts than those of the rest of the city. On the one hand, they have been spaces especially open to intervention, for their location created little conflict with the social order of cities. On the other hand they have been conflicted spaces regarding the struggle between the installation of harbour facilities and leisure spaces, linked to jurisdictional problems between national and metropolitan authorities. The use of the urban waterfront as leisure space was different in Europe and in North and South America. In most of European capitals the waterfront was occupied by harbour facilities, and due to commercial expansion, these spaces were growing and became segregated from urban space. This process did not allow the development of leisure areas on the waterfront. On the other hand, in North and South America the waterfronts became spaces of opportunity and the development of harbour and leisure space was contemporary and flexible, giving an important role to landscape on the waterfront. The cases of Barcelona, Chicago and Buenos Aires appeared to be the most suitable for the analysis of this phenomenon. They appear as models for other waterfront cities throughout the western world. Incidentally they were also hosts of international exhibitions in the period between 1870 and 1930. This project studies the issues of these spaces with an analytical and critical view, searching for primary and secondary sources to evaluate the use of leisure in the projects for the urban waterfront and the way this has been practised in three particular case studies. The reciprocal influence between leisure activities, urban design and mass events are analysed as a main backbone of this research.Architectur

    Santi allo specchio: Bernardino da Siena e Pietro martire. Osservazioni a partire dalle fonti iconografiche

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    This chapter’s ultimate goal is to unveil the underlying significance of a widespread association in Late Medieval iconology, such as the one between Peter Martyr and Bernardino of Siena. Through the analysis of several case studies, the author succeeded in casting a fresh light on the image of a duo which throughout the Quattrocento was embedded with multiple and different meanings.L’obiettivo di questo contributo è quello di investigare il significato di un’associazione diffusa nell’iconologia tardo‐medievale, quale quella tra Pietro Martire e Bernardino da Siena. Attraverso l’analisi di diversi casi di studio, l’autore getta una nuova luce sull’immagine di un binomio che nel corso del Quattrocento si è caricato di molteplici e differenti significati

    Effect of ATP depletion and DTT on the transport of membrane proteins from the endoplasmic reticulum and the intermediate compartment to the Golgi complex.

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    Newly synthesized membrane proteins are exported from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi complex through an intermediate compartment. Incubation st low temperature (15 degrees C) arrests the proteins in the intermediate compartment and prevents the entry into the Golgi complex. We have studied, in living cells, the effect of dithiothreitol (DTT) and ATP depletion on the transport to the Golgi complex of proteins accumulated either in the endoplasmic reticulum or in the intermediate compartment after a temperature block. The morphological results obtained with vesicular stomatitis virus ts-O45 G glycoprotein and the biochemical analysis performed with human CD8 protein, an O-glycosylated protein, showed that: i) ATP depletion blocks the export to the Golgi complex of proteins located either in the endoplasmic reticulum or in the intermediate compartment and ii) DTT interferes with the folding and export of proteins located in the endoplasmic reticulum, but it does not prevent the transfer from the intermediate compartment to the Golgi complex

    The Peter Martyr reader

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    Accession Number: ATLA0001328116; Language(s): English; Issued by ATLA: 20080715; Publication Type: Review; Related Books/Electronic Resources: By: Vermigli, Pietro Martire, 1499-1562 Peter Martyr reader viii, 260 p. Publisher: Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 1999. ATLA0001327874Source type: Electronic(1)http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=reh&AN=ATLA0001328116&loginpage=Login.asp&site=ehost-liv
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